Your privacy is critically important to us. At LearnScripture.net we have a few fundamental principles:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. Only your email address is needed for full access to the service.
- We don’t share your email address with anyone except to comply with the law, or protect our rights.
- Information about which verses each user is learning is normally public, as well as various other actions, in order to maximize the social interactions which form a key part of this service.
- Public actions are indicated clearly using an icon like this: and usually with further descriptions on the page where the action is taken.
- Any further information you enter into LearnScripture.net is at your choice. This information is assumed to be public by default. For such information, we will either always allow you to remove it, or explicitly warn you beforehand if that cannot be done.
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals: (Note, this policy is based on a policy from Automattic Inc., and is available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use).
If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact our support team.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, LearnScripture.net collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. LearnScripture.net’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how LearnScripture.net’s visitors use its website. From time to time, LearnScripture.net may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
LearnScripture.net may also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for anonymous users. LearnScripture.net only discloses logged in user IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to LearnScripture.net choose to interact with LearnScripture.net in ways that require LearnScripture.net to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that LearnScripture.net gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. To visit the site or to use on a limited 'guest' account, no information is required. In order for data to be remembered permanently and to use features such as score boards and creation of verse sets, we require an email address. This email address will be used to send you notifications, in accordance with your preferences, which you may opt out of at any time, and may be used in rare cases to contact you regarding your use of the site.
In each case, LearnScripture.net collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with LearnScripture.net. LearnScripture.net does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
LearnScripture.net collects statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, as part of its service LearnScripture.net monitors the progress made by users in memorizing verses. LearnScripture.net may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, LearnScripture.net does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
LearnScripture.net discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on LearnScripture.net’s behalf or to provide services available at LearnScripture.net’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using LearnScripture.net’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. LearnScripture.net will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, LearnScripture.net discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when LearnScripture.net believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of LearnScripture.net, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an LearnScripture.net website and have supplied your email address, LearnScripture.net may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with LearnScripture.net and our products. We also send email reminders regarding your use of the site, which you can opt out of or limit at any time.
If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. LearnScripture.net takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. LearnScripture.net uses cookies to help LearnScripture.net identify and track visitors, their usage of LearnScripture.net website, and their website access preferences. LearnScripture.net visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using LearnScripture.net’s websites, with the drawback that most features of LearnScripture.net’s websites will not function properly without the aid of cookies.
We do not use any third-party cookies, such as tracking cookies, or 3rd party analytics services.
Business Transfers
If LearnScripture.net, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that LearnScripture.net goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of LearnScripture.net may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
We do not use ads on LearnScripture.net, and so are free from the privacy concerns that come with them.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, LearnScripture.net may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in LearnScripture.net’s sole discretion. LearnScripture.net encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a LearnScripture.net account, alerts may also appear on your dashboard. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
This privacy policy is based on http://automattic.com/privacy/, with permission, and can be used and adapted as per the licence given on that page.